List: 2010 Upcoming Releases

Out with the old and in with the new. Decade, that is, and while the dust settles from the onslaught of year-end lists, we now take a look at some of the upcoming music slated for release during the first quarter of 2010.

Here’s a handful of some upcoming albums that have us excited for the new year, and expect many more to join the list in the coming months.

January

01/12
Owen Pallett – Heartland – Domino
Jason Boesel – Hustler’s Son – Team Love
OK Go – Of the Blue Colour of the Sky – Capitol
Vampire Weekend – Contra – XL

01/18
Blockhead – The Music Scene – Ninja Tune
These New Puritans – Hidden – Angular/Domino
Various – Pop Ambient 2010 – Kompakt

01/19
Cold War Kids – Behave Yourself – Downtown
Eels – End Times – Vagrant
Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Real Life is No Cool – Smalltown Supersound
RJD2 – The Colossus – RJ’s ELectrical Connections
Spoon – Transference – Merge

01/26
Beach House – Teen Dream – Sub Pop
Clipd Beaks – To Realize – Lovepump United
Four Tet – There is Love in You – Domino
Fucked Up – Couple Tracks: Singles 2002 – 2008 – Matador
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM – Because Music/Atlantic
Home – Seventeen – Jagjaguwar
Interference – Viva La Interference – The Social Registry
Jaga Jazzist – One-Armed Bandit – Ninja Tune
The Magnetic Fields – Realism – Nonesuch
My Brightest Diamond – Shark Remixes – Asthmatic Kitty
Pit Er Pat – The Flexible Entertainer – Thrill Jockey
Thavius Beck – Dialogue – Mush
Various – Good God! Born Again Funk – Numero Group
Various – The Minimal Wave Tapes – Stones Throw

February

02/02
Georgia Anne Muldrow – King’s Ballad – Ubiquity
Hot Chip – One Life Stand – Astralwerks
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose – Bridge Carols – Holocene Music
Pantha du Prince – Black Noice – Rough Trade
The Watson Twins – Talking to You, Talking to Me – Vanguard
Yeasayer – Odd Blood – Secretly Canadian

02/16
Exceptor – Presidence – Paw Tracks
Field Music – Measure – Memphis Industries
Tindersticks – Falling Down a Mountain – Constellation

02/23
Efterklang – Magic Chairs – 4AD
Eluvium – Similies – Temporary Residence
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh – Universal Motown
Martyn – Fabric 50 – Fabric
Shout Out Louds – Work – Merge
Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself – Kill Rock Stars
Zeus – Say Us – Arts & Crafts

March

03/09
Broken Bells – Broken Bells – Columbia
Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks – FatCat
Liars – Sisterworld – Mute
Morning Benders – Big Echo – Rough Trade
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Brutalist Bricks – Matador

03/16
Freelance Whales – Weathervanes – Frenchkiss/Mom + Pop
Gin Wigmore and the Cardinals – Holy Smoke – Universal Motown
White Stripes – Under Great White Northern Lights (CD/DVD) – Third Man

03/23
Goldfrapp – Head First – Mute
Serena-Maneesh – S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor – 4AD
She & Him – Volume Two – Merge